Tools

I expected the desktop app to be the training-wheels version and planned to stay in my tmux panes like a respectable curmudgeon. A few weeks later the CLI is the thing I open occasionally, like a wrench. Here's what converted me.

If the escape hatch is running open models like Qwen on your own machine, the obvious follow-up is: are those local models actually good enough yet?

I rarely let one AI model's code go to production without a second model reviewing it first. Here's why cross-reviewing between Claude Code and Codex works, what it catches, and where it doesn't help.

During my time as a web developer and popular website owner there was one piece of the workflow that I dreaded more than almost any other, which was the design phase of any new feature or page. It wasn't that I had anything against designers, because the designers I worked with were genuinely talented, but rather that the cycle between having an idea and seeing a real working version of it was always slow, expensive, and full of friction in ways that quietly killed a lot of good ideas before they ever made it into production. So when Anthropic launched Claude Design a few weeks ago, I sat down with it expecting to be mildly impressed and ended up genuinely shocked...